Giovanni Flores Per 1 Vanderbilt is Coin Worthy Dear U.S. Mint and American Public‚ The silver Vanderbilt coin that I wish to present to you all today is one made exclusively to represent the masterful businessman and industrialist of the Gilded Age‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt. With one side representing how Vanderbilt was a hero to society as a “captain of industry‚” and the other illustrating the opposite in which he was an unforgiving and immoral “robber baron‚” you are all in for a treat as I wish
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Shortly after the civil war‚ industry was booming. Andrew Carnegie was the first to mass produce steel in Pittsburgh. After the disaster Carnegie steel was going down hill. Frick thought he was the one doing all the work and thought he could take over and be the main man. Frick was trying to take charge and a worker came in Mr. Frick’s office and got his attention and shot him in the side of the head. He missed where he was aiming and grazed the side of his head. After realizing what happened‚ Frick
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or dying for his country? Andrew Carnegie was no Ulysses Grant but he was also not Vanderbilt‚ Carnegie gave back to his country with the riches he earned. We cannot look upon Carnegie as being the child with the silver spoon in his mouth growing up. He was poor growing up and was business savvy which is how he became rich. We should not punish him for using his knowledge to become successful but we should look at what he did with the money. Andrew Carnegie was a hero‚ he not only brought the
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Carnegie Drove Steel Home Andrew Carnegie grew up as a son of a weaver craftsman and a mother who went to work to help support the family when the stream weaving loom came to Scotland. Andrew later wrote‚ after seeing my dad begging for work I knew I would be the one to fix it. I determined that Andrew Carnegie was a captain of industry. He was a captain of industry because he‚ helped build the formidable American steel industry‚ supplied jobs to many people who were out of jobs because of the
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Carnegie and Gates Running Head: Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates‚ Philanthropists 1 Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates‚ Philanthropists of Public Libraries in the United States Jennifer Finlay San Jose State University LIBR 200-04 December 4‚ 2005 Carnegie and Gates Abstract Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates‚ major business leaders of their respective eras‚ had a major impact on public libraries in the United States through their philanthropic efforts. Carnegie funded a program at the beginning
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Andrew Carnegie‚ The Selfish Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie‚ born on November 25‚ 1835‚ was a Scottish philanthropist who was one of the richest men in America in the 1900 ’s. I completely agree with Carnegie ’s opinion of how the rich should donate their money toward the good of mankind before they die‚ but disagree with his actions toward his workers . He started working in a cotton mill making $1.20 a week only to upgrade to $2.20 working as a messenger boy. He eventually taught himself telegraphy
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15‚ 2001 The Rockefellers feared the temptations of wealth‚ yet a visitor once described their estate as the kind of place God would have built if only he’d had the money. They amassed a fortune that outraged a Democratic nation‚ then gave it all away reshaping America. They were the closest thing the country had to a royal family‚ but the Rockefellers shunned the public eye. For decades‚ the Rockefeller name was despised in America‚ associated with John D. Rockefeller Sr.’s feared monopoly
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Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall‚ the famous concert hall in New York City‚ has again undergone a restoration. While this is not the first‚ it is the most extensive in the building’s history. As a result of new restoration‚ Carnegie Hall once again has the quality of sound that it had when it was first built. Carnegie Hall owes its existence to Andrew Carnegie‚ the wealthy owner of a steel company in the late 1800s. The hall was finished in 1891 and quickly gained a reputation as an excellent performing
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Chris Schiller Mr. Fisher History 7-2 April 3‚ 2013 Carnegie and Frick Essay During America’s Gilded Age‚ several industrial giants influenced the economic and political destiny of America with their wealth and power. Among these were Andrew Carnegie‚ immigrant steel tycoon of Pittsburgh and one of the richest Americans ever‚ and Henry Clay Frick‚ who built Pittsburgh’s coke industry and created one of the grandest private art collections ever in his New York mansion. These two men had tremendous
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